Vistext: A benchmark for semantically rich chart captioning

BJ Tang, A Boggust, A Satyanarayan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.05356, 2023 - arxiv.org
Captions that describe or explain charts help improve recall and comprehension of the
depicted data and provide a more accessible medium for people with visual disabilities …

Rich screen reader experiences for accessible data visualization

J Zong, C Lee, A Lundgard, JW Jang… - Computer Graphics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Current web accessibility guidelines ask visualization designers to support screen readers
via basic non‐visual alternatives like textual descriptions and access to raw data tables. But …

A large-scale mixed-methods analysis of blind and low-vision research in ACM and IEEE

YJ Thoo, M Jeanneret Medina, JE Froehlich… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Technologies for blind and low-vision (BLV) people have long been a focus of Human-
Computer Interaction (HCI) and accessibility (ASSETS) research. To map and assess this …

How accessible is my visualization? Evaluating visualization accessibility with Chartability

F Elavsky, C Bennett, D Moritz - Computer Graphics Forum, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Novices and experts have struggled to evaluate the accessibility of data visualizations
because there are no common shared guidelines across environments, platforms, and …

Striking a balance: Reader takeaways and preferences when integrating text and charts

C Stokes, V Setlur, B Cogley… - … on Visualization and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While visualizations are an effective way to represent insights about information, they rarely
stand alone. When designing a visualization, text is often added to provide additional …

Towards accessible chart visualizations for the non-visuals: Research, applications and gaps

M Singh, MS Kanroo, HS Kawoosa, P Goyal - Computer science review, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Chart Visualizations (CharVis) such as charts/plots and diagrams are commonly
used in documents for representing the underlying quantitative information. However, the …

Visualization accessibility in the wild: Challenges faced by visualization designers

SCS Joyner, A Riegelhuth, K Garrity, YS Kim… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Data visualizations are now widely used across many disciplines. However, many of them
are not easily accessible for visually impaired people. In this work, we use three-staged …

Chart reader: Accessible visualization experiences designed with screen reader users

JR Thompson, JJ Martinez, A Sarikaya… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Even though screen readers are a core accessibility tool for blind and low vision individuals
(BLVIs), most visualizations are incompatible with screen readers. To improve accessible …

Exploring chart question answering for blind and low vision users

J Kim, A Srinivasan, NW Kim, YS Kim - … of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Data visualizations can be complex or involve numerous data points, making them
impractical to navigate using screen readers alone. Question answering (QA) systems have …

The accessibility of data visualizations on the web for screen reader users: Practices and experiences during covid-19

D Fan, A Fay Siu, H Rao, GSH Kim, X Vazquez… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Data visualization has become an increasingly important means of effective data
communication and has played a vital role in broadcasting the progression of COVID-19 …